Immokalee Migrant Worker Justice
Immokalee Migrant Worker Justice will expose participants to the many difficult issues surrounding migrant workers, worker's rights, rural poverty, and modern-day slavery, specifically in the Immokalee community located in Immokalee, Florida. We will work with the Coalition for Immokalee Workers (CIW), the Friendship House, and the Immokalee Community Center to provide a number of cultural immersion experiences, educational and service activities.
We will partner with the Coalition for Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-based worker organization that consists of largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. They strive to build our strength as a community on a basis of reflection and analysis, constant attention to coalition building across ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development to help their members continually develop their skills in community education and organization. From this basis they fight for, among other things: a fair wage for the work workers do, more respect on the part of management and the industries where they work, better and less expensive housing, stronger laws and stronger enforcement against those who would violate workers' rights, the right to organize on jobs without fear of retaliation, and an end to indentured servitude in the fields.
For more information, please contact Spencer Fertig.
